Word: laws
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There are a couple of practical considerations you have to take into account," says Martha N. Murdock, pro bono director for the Massachusetts Bar Association. "Poverty law is not straightforward or uncomplicated, so someone straight out of law school may not have the experience to handle complicated poverty law cases...
...associate usually goes into a corporate law firm that probably has no less than 150 lawyers, but generally doesn't have that much control over what they do as far as pro bono work," Butts says...
...Law firms often have official policies governing the proportion of time their attorneys can spend on pro bono work. According to Butts, although those figures occasionally reach 10 or 11 percent, they usually lie between 1 and 3 percent...
...addition, the group recently presented its members with guidelines for "professionalism" that included a recommendation that attorneys accept at least one volunteer case per year. Two weeks ago, a New England Board of Higher Education report, entitled "Law and the Information Society," echoed that call...
Some lawyers cite Aetna as a model company. It permits its attorneys to spend up to 10 percent of their paid company time on volunteer work. It also encourages its summer law interns to participate in at least one volunteer case...